Alberto Osuna
Bio
As a Senior (UNC)
- Played at the University of North Carolina in 2024.
- Departed UNC ranking No. 5 in program history with 45 career home runs.
- 2024 NCAA Division I College World Series participant.
- Hit .281 with 14 home runs and 56 RBI.
- Blasted two home runs in a win over Longwood.
- Hit two home runs against Louisville (5/10), marking his fifth career multi-homer game. Finished the game with 5 RBI.
- Had a season-best 4 hits, including 2 doubles, going 4-for-4, at Miami (3/17).
- Posted 2-plus hits in a total of 15 games.
- Hit a home run in two of the team's first three games of the season, against Wagner (2/17-18).
- Drove in 4 runs and slugged a home run at Wake Forest (3/31).
- Added another home run against Notre Dame (4/13).
- Homered in back-to-back games against Coastal Carolina (4/16) and NC State (4/18).
- Recorded 2 hits, including a home run, at LSU (6/2), at Chapel Hill NCAA Regional.
As A Junior (UNC)
- Returned to the University of North Carolina for the 2023 season.
- Entered the season as a 2023 Preseason All American.
- Played in 52 games and made 48 starts (50 at DH, two at 1B).
- Ranked fourth on the team in home runs with 11.
- Nearly half of his hits were for extra bases (11 home runs, eight doubles).
- Homered in four consecutive games from March 14 -21 (at Charlotte, High Point, Pitt, N.C. A&T).
- Batted .400 (16-40) in a string of 11 games from Feb. 28 - March 15.
- Collected his lone three-hit game of the season against Penn State.
- Drove in a season-high three runs against High Point and in game two of the Georgia Tech series.
- Collected a pair of doubles in the ACC Baseball Championship against Virginia.
- Homered twice during the postseason, versus Clemson in the ACC semifinals and Iowa in the Terre Haute Regional.
- First hit of the year was a solo home run against VCU (2/28).
As A Sophomore (UNC)
- Transferred to the University of North Carolina for the 2022 season.
- Played in 63 games and made 61 starts as the designated hitter.
- Finished the season with a batting average of .265 with an OPS of .911.
- Tied for the team lead in RBI (57) and ranked second on the team in home runs (20).
- Became the first junior college transfer in program history to hit 20 home runs in his first season at UNC.
- Hit 13 of his 20 home runs during ACC play with an OPS of .939.
- Led the team in home runs, slugging percentage (.603) and RBIs (36) during conference play.
- Tallied 16 multi-RBI games and 14 multi-hit games.
- Longest on-base streak of the season was nine games and longest hitting streak was eight games (April 8 – 19).
- Batted .305 with six home runs and 17 RBI in 16 games during the month of April.
- Homered twice in a game three times: at Duke (March 18), at Louisville (April 8), vs. Florida State (May 19).
- Smashed a two-run home run in the seventh inning to break a 4-4 tie against UNCW and push the Heels to a 6-4 win.
- Collected a season-best four hits in the series opener at Louisville (April 8).
- Tallied eight hits (8-of-16), 10 RBI, three home runs and two doubles in the three game series at UofL.
- Drove in a run in eight straight games, beginning with the series opener at Louisville (April 8 -19).
- Hit a two-run home run in the eighth inning to lift UNC to a 7-6 win over NC State in the series finale.
- Delivered Carolina's 7-5 series-opening win over Florida State with a three-run walk-off homer; also hit a three-run homer in the first inning and finish the game with six RBI.
- Collected five hits in the series against the Seminoles with three home runs and nine RBI.
Walters State Community College
- Named 2021 NJCAA DI Player-of-the-Year.
- First Team All-America.
- Tennessee Community College Athletic Association (TCCAA) Player-of-the-Year and All-TCCAA Baseball East Team.
- Finished the 2021 season batting .459 with 25 home runs and leading the nation with 107 RBI in 68 games.
- His 25 home runs were one shy of the NJCAA lead.
- Broke the Walters State program record for the most hits (106) and the most RBI in a single season.
- First player in school history to drive in 100 or more runs.
- Led Walters State to its best record in program history, finishing the season 61-7 overall.
- Helped the Senators claim a TCCAA/Appalachian District title and earn the school's third straight trip to the NJCAA Division I Baseball World Series.
- Played in 19 games during the Covid-shortened 2020 season.
- Coached by Dave Shelton.
High School
- Attended Mauldin High School and played two years for coach Jim Maciejewski.
- Four-year letterwinner for the Mavericks.
- Named to the 2019 SCBCA 5A all-state team.
- Selected to play in the 2019 South Carolina Coaches High School All-Star Game.
- Two-time all-region player, coming in 2018 and 2019.
- Member of the National Honor Society and student council.
Personal
- Full name is Alberto Rafael Osuna Sanchez.
- Born in Greenville, S.C.
- Son of Ramon Osuna and Anna Sachez de Osuna.
- Youngest of three children (Anna and Ramon).
- His brother was selected by the Atlanta Braves in the 14th round of the 2016 MLB Draft out of Walters State.
- Birthdate: 1/12/2001.
